Shipping-receipt holder.



I. D. VAN FLEET.

SHIPPING RECEIPT HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 3.1912.

Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH COI. WASHINGTON. D. c,

JESSE D. VAN FLEET, OF MINOT, NORTH DAKOTA.

SHIPPING-RECEIPT HOLDER.

Speccation of Letters Patent.4

Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

Application ledSeptember 3, 1912. Serial No. 718,320.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Jnssn D. VAN FLEET, citizen of the United States, residing at Minot, in the county of lard and State ofA North Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Receipt Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for holding a certificate, permit, or like paper upon a closure and protecting the same while the closure is in transit, but is designed more particularly for use in holding the oiiicial certificates which are required to be made by undertakers in shipping bodies, and has for one of its objects to provide a convenient means for retaining and preserving such certicate in place and preventing its disgurement or displacement.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed device whereby the certificate may be secured in place and protected, and means likewise provided for retaining in place other papers which are accessible only to the party to whom the closure is directed.

TWith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed o-ut in the claim, and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a burial case with the improvement applied; Fig. 2 is a section, enlarged, on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1 with the holding plate loosed to illustrate the construction more fully; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the certificate holding member detached; and Fig. l is a perspective view, enlarged, of the letter of instruction.

In carrying out my invention, I preferably employ a substantially rectangular metallic plate 10 having a relatively large oblong opening 11 medially formed therein adjacent one end, leaving the body of the plate to receive instructions and other information. In this connection, it may be stated that the word Head will preferably be arranged, in relatively large letters, upon the body of the plate, together with the name and residence of the shipping undertaker or embalmer.

rIhe margins of the plate 10 are provided with a plurality of spaced apertures adapted to receive nails or screws 12 which support the plate in position. Removably fitted beneath the body of the plate, is a sheet 13, preferably folded upon itself intermediate its ends, as shown in Fig 4, and provided with terminal tabs 111 adapted to project into the opening 11 of the plate, as best. shown in Fig. 3. The sheet 13 may be utilized to receive instructions from the shipping undertaker to the receiving undertaker, or any other desired data, and it will be observed that it may be readily removed from beneath the imperforate portion of the plate through the opening 11 by pulling on the tabs 14.

As shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, the plate 10 is preferably provided with an aperture medially of the body thereof and adjacent the opening 11, said aperture being designed to receive a screw or other fastening device, which may be driven through the sheet 13 and into the support to thus securely hold said sheet in position during transit. It will now be observed that, should the screw holding the sheet 13, become displaced, the holding devices 12 arranged within the margins of the body of the plate, are adapted ,to provide limiting stops for the said sheet, so arranged that, under normal circumstances, the accidental displacement of the sheet, under such circumstances, will be reduced to a minimum. Mounted beneath the opening 11 in the plate, is the embalmers or undertakers certiflcate, indicated by the numeral 15, said certificate being so arranged as to be easily visible while, at the same time, it will be protected by the plate 10. It will be observed that the fastening devices 12 adjacent the opening 11 are serving as retaining means for the certificate 15 disposed to prevent the certificate from shifting laterally from beneath the plate.

It will therefore be seen that I provide a simple and eflicient construction for the purpose set forth, which is readily adaptable for use under circumstances governing the shipment of bodies, as now commonly eX- tant, and while I have indicated that the invention is more particularly designed for such purpose, still, it will be readily seen that the construction which I employ may also be used in various other connections and I do not, therefore, wish to limit myself in this regard.

What is claimed is In a device of the character described, the combination with a supporting body, of a plateV overlying and spaced from the body and provided With an opening adjacent one end thereof, a plurality of spaced fastening devices extending through the margin of the plate and connecting` the plate with the body, a sheet arranged beneath the plate and visible through said opening, certain of said fastening devices serving as retaining means for said sheet, the body of the plate being provided with an aperturedisposed between said opening and the other end ofthe plate, a second sheet removably supported upon the supporting body be- Copes of this patent may be obtained for neath the body of the plate and removable through said opening, the fastening devices in the margins of the body of the plate serving as limiting stops for said second men- JESSE D. VAN FLEET.

Witnesses:

C. B. DAVIS, ANNIE BROWN.

Washington, D. C. 

